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The second daughter of Maria von Trapp, whose Austrian family became famous through the musical and movie “The Sound of Music,” has died

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Katie Couric, in a new memoir called “Going There,” writes of feeling betrayed by Matt Lauer following the sexual misconduct accusations that led to his firing at the “Today" show in 2017

The Canadian winner of what is arguably the piano world’s most important competition says the coronavirus pandemic lockdown helped him concentrate on music

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There’s a clear message in the new film “Ron’s Gone Wrong” and that message is to stop watching films like “Ron’s Gone Wrong.”

A chapel in a Rome church that is home to a Baroque sculptural masterpiece by Gian Lorenzo Bernini has been made even more dazzling after restoration

Atlanta rapper Young Thug says that an apartment concierge let an unknown person take his Louis Vuitton bag holding jewelry, money and about 200 unreleased songs

Rosamund Pike is already starring in the Amazon Prime Video based on Robert Jordan’s “The Wheel of Time" books

The Premier Hockey Federation has reached an agreement to make ESPN+ the exclusive home for watching games in this U.S. this season

Bruce (Xiaoyu) Liu of Canada has been named as the winner of the 40,000-euro ($45,000) first prize in the 18th Frederic Chopin international piano competition, a prestigious event that launches pianists’ world careers

Bruce (Xiaoyu) Liu of Canada is the winner of the 18th Chopin international piano competition

Netflix employees walked out Wednesday in protest of Dave Chappelle’s special and its anti-transgender comments

A cool wind sweeps through the sands of “Dune,” Denis Villeneuve’s chilly, majestic adaptation of Frank Herbert’s classic 1965 science-fiction novel

The latest batch of police recruits in an Alabama beach town faced an interview board that included law enforcement executives and a civilian who was recognizable by his voice if not by his face: Hollywood actor Morgan Freeman

One of the country’s most acclaimed and innovative literary magazines is shutting down

Jeymes Samuel is a fan of old Westerns, but in “The Harder They Fall,” the British filmmaker-musician introduces much that’s new — including an eclectic soundtrack that bends genres, time periods and moods

Wes Anderson pays tribute to the imagined heyday of storied literary magazines like “The New Yorker” and “The Paris Review” in “The French Dispatch,” a stylized anthology film that's structured like a magazine

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As he brings “American Utopia” back to Broadway following the pandemic pause, David Byrne says it's evident how thrilled people are simply to be enjoying live entertainment again

A federal judge has ordered R&B superstar R. Kelly to stand trial in Chicago on child pornography and obstruction of justice charges next year after the scheduled sentencing for his conviction in an earlier sex trafficking trial in New York

Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto tested positive for COVID-19, which he says is surprising but made him grateful that he was vaccinated

Oscar-winning British songwriter Leslie Bricusse, whose work includes James Bond themes and Willy Wonka’s signature tune, has died

'Superstar: Robin Williams' airs Oct. 20 on ABC and streams next day on Hulu

A standalone Peppa Pig theme park at the Legoland Florida Resort is scheduled to open Feb. 24

A dalgona stall in Seoul says sales boosted up to eight times.

Buckingham Palace says Queen Elizabeth II has reluctantly accepted medical advice to rest for a few days

Buckingham Palace says Queen Elizabeth II has reluctantly accepted medical advice to rest for a few days

San Francisco police say a man who fell to his death from the upper level of a basketball arena is believed to have “leapt from an elevated area of the arena,” causing his death

Former President Donald Trump wants to countersue a former “Apprentice” contestant who accused him of defaming her when he denied her sexual assault allegations

Netflix has posted sharply higher third-quarter earnings thanks to a stronger slate of titles

Entertainer Flavor Flav's attorneys say he will fight a misdemeanor domestic battery charge stemming from a scuffle with his girlfriend at home in suburban Las Vegas

CNN's John King revealed that he has multiple sclerosis on Tuesday, during a discussion of vaccine mandates on his “Inside Politics” show

Conservative firebrand Meghan McCain says she decided to leave “The View” the day after she returned from maternity leave last winter when colleague Joy Behar said ‘I did not miss you’ during a political argument

CBS won its first week of the still-new television season, this time by dominating non-sports programming

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A Russian actor and a film director who spent 12 days in orbit to make the world’s first movie in space say they were so thrilled with their experience on the International Space Station that they felt sorry to leave

A pair of 17th-century marble angels that decorated a southern Italian church are back home on Italian soil

A giant puppet of a Syrian refugee girl symbolizing millions of displaced children has landed on the southeast coast of England on the last leg of a 5,000 mile (8,000-kilometer) journey across Europe from Syria

A federal judge has denied motions to suppress video evidence found on electronic devices seized from former reality TV star Josh Duggar, who is facing child pornography charges

The New-York Historical Society has chosen Dr. H

A medical issue has forced Celine Dion to delay the opening of a new Las Vegas show

Kanye West is now known only as Ye

Soprano Anna Netrebko needs shoulder surgery and has canceled performances in Verdi’s “Nabucco” at the Vienna State Opera

Before he was a rock god, he sold lightbulbs

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The Grammys will stick to its word with the public release of the full inclusion rider to ensure equity and inclusion in hiring on all levels of production for next year’s ceremony

Regulators are stepping up scrutiny of the United Kingdom’s music streaming market to see whether there’s enough competition

She joins fellow "View" original Joy Behar in the podcast "Behind The Table."